Education
Ph.D. - University of Oregon, Eugene
Research Interests
Energetics
Nutrient cycling
Decomposition
Biodiversity of soil biota
Research Projects
Long-term studies of disturbances as they affect ecological processes
in landscapes of the southern Appalachians (NSF) Co-PI; LTREB: Long-term
soil organic matter dynamics in subtropical agroecosystems (NSF) Lead
PI; International Symposium on Soil Biodiversity, with special issue
of Pedobiologia on that topic (NSF) PI; Microbial biomass and
dynamics in riparian zones of the Southern Appalachians (US Forest
Service).
Current Funding
Horseshoe Bend LTREB grant from NSF, at the rate of $60,000 per year.
Selected Publications
Coleman, D.C., D.A. Crossley, Jr., and P.F. Hendrix. 2004. Fundamentals
of Soil Ecology, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Publishing, San Diego, CA.
Coleman, D.C., D.M. Swift, and J.E. Mitchell. 2004. From the frontier to the biosphere: a brief history of the USIBP Grasslands Biome program and its impacts on scientific research in North America. Rangelands 26: 8-15.
Coleman, D.C., S. Fu, P.F. Hendrix, and D.A. Crossley, Jr. 2002. Soil foodwebs in agroecosystems: impacts of herbivory and tillage management. European Journal of Soil Biology 38: 21-28.
Coleman, D.C. 2001. Soil Biota, Soil Systems, and Processes. Pp. 305-314 in vol. 5: S. Levin, Ed. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Coleman, D. C., and P. F. Hendrix. 2000. (Eds.). Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems, CAB International, Wallingford, U.K. 336 pp.
Knoepp, J. D., D. C. Coleman, D. A. Crossley, Jr., and J. S. Clark. 2000. Biological indices of soil quality: an ecosystem case study of their use. Forest Ecology & Management 138: 357-368.
Coleman, D. C., J. M. Blair, E. T. Elliott, and D. H. Wall. 1999.
Soil Invertebrates, pp. 349-377 in: G. P. Robertson, D. C.
Coleman, C. S. Bledsoe, and P. Sollins, Eds. Standard Soil Methods
for Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER Network Series. Oxford University
Press, New York.
Curriculum
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